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Converse Kickin' Conversation: Say What?

Are you feeling lonely?
Are you feeling a lack of friendship in your life? 
Do you feel a shortage of pizazz or razz-a-mi-tazz when you are trying to carry on a conversation with your cat, dog, hamster, or goldfish? 

Well, thankfully DC Comics x Converse Chuck Taylor has come to the rescue putting the KABOOM back into your social game! 

Case in point:
Just the other day I was out and about doing errands, while wearing my Wonder Woman kicks (featured above), and I had been in the store for 1 minute when I was stopped by a young woman.  
She said, "I totally love your shoes, my friends and I are big comic book geeks!" 
Of course I told her that she and her friends were headed down the correct path of life and that they should keep following their heart! We ended up talking about the latest comic books that have come out, comic cons that we have been too, and recommended a few movies to each other. 
A conversation lasting at least 10-15 minutes. (hey- she was an employee we had to cover a lot in little time.)
I walked away feeling like I had met a soul sister and done good in the world! 

My next experience was at another local public establishment. 
I was minding my own business, browsing the long aisles of books and magazines, when a small child came running up to me and was yelling something totally NOT English! I am pretty sure it was Klingon. 
The child was babbling and pointing.  
Finally he/she (still unsure on the gender) just plopped down and pointed to my shoes! It was pretty much the highlight of AWESOME!
The frazzled and embarrassed parent was only 2 steps behind. 
She was spouting apologies, but was explaining that "THE DAD", in a tone that was hilarious, read the baby comics every night!  
I died laughing. 
She did not realize the child, who spoke Klingon, would recognize a comic book character.  We began talking and she was fascinated at how normal I actually was! 
You know with being a comic book geek and a full grown adult and all! 
Once again, I walked away feeling I had done good influencing the world!

And who, or rather what, did I have to thank, well my Chuck Taylors! 

We are all aware of the hype around DC Comic and Converse merging.  It all started in with the first collection released in mid February 2011 to celebrate DC Comics 75th anniversary.  The first collection included Superman, Batman, and Joker in a vintage comic style and was called:
     *DC Heroes Pack Chuck Taylors - 75 Anniversary
After that it becomes a blur....I seriously tried to track down the order in which the shoes came out. I got lost between the 7 different collections and at least 4 exclusives...Including Wonder Woman, Riddler, Killer Crocs, and Batman Dark Knight. Geesh! 

We can all agree that Converse and DC Comics did good!

If you are in the market to get some super fly chucks on your thread barren feet and you are interested in checking out the what Superhero or Villain to choose let me give you a few pointers:

• As I stated before, there have been at least 7 released collections so search under collection names such as:
• DC Comics x Converse Chuck Taylor Collection
• DC Comics x Converse Chuck Taylor All Star HI Collection
• DC Comics x Converse Heroes 
• DC Comics x Converse Spring 2011
• DC Comics x Converse Holiday 2011
• DC Comics x Converse Chuck Taylor Original Artwork Collection
• DC Comics x Converse Spring 2012
• DC Comics x Converse Fall 2012
• Do not just look under the Converse site, check out other shoe sites.
• Use additional key words for search such as:
• All Star
• Sneakers
• Superhero Chucks
• DC Converse exclusive
• DC chucks
• Use the specific shoe style HI and Low
• To convert shoe size from men's to women - just subtract 2. Converse does not work in half size so go up a step. 
• Woman size 8 : Man size 6
• Woman size 9 : Man size 7

If by chance you have been lost to this wonderful world of conversation starters of a new generation and treats for geek feet here are a few pictures to get you going!

                                                                                

however if you are feeling a need to go a different speed:

                              

And Off We Go...

and off we go...
to begin with this is me:

ok, haha, behind the mask this is me:

and me with what I LOVE:

I am a geek through and through. 
Have been my whole life. 
From cartoons, comics, computers, code, sci-fi, action figures, gaming, to even having a fetish with words! 

The comic industry has always been a home away from home for me. Always beckoning me to come back whenever I have swayed in another direction or galaxy far away.

I recognize, appreciate, and am enamored by talent.  Especially the talent of artists who draw, ink, color, letter, and write story lines and arcs. These artists who work together, create visually stimulating worlds for all genres because they love what they do - and it shows. 

I truly love working within this industry. 
It is gritty.  
It is real. 
The art is raw
The writing is fresh.
The creations are never ending. 
The fans are forever loyal. 
There is opportunity and acceptance for anyone who wishes to just belong.

What I hope to accomplish with this blog is to share some of my knowledge that I have accumulated over 13 years regarding Marketing and Research, as well as spotlight some great artists and writers, be an ongoing source of information and commentary for the industry, review and keep updates handy, of course highlight funny incidentals, and finally keep comics the essential focus of all that is entailed.  

After all, "The whole world is watching us now.  We must be nothing less than fabulous." -Emma Frost, New X-Men